No unauthorized person shall uncover, make any
connection with or opening into, use, alter, or disturb any public
sewer or appurtenance thereof without first obtaining a written permit
from the City Engineer.
No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged
any storm cooling water or unpolluted industrial waters to any sanitary
sewer. Swimming pool drains shall not be connected to any sanitary
sewer.
When building laterals are to serve multiple
dwelling structures, the building lateral shall be sized in accordance
with the metered water use and with sound professional engineering
judgment.
Where a lateral sewer is to serve a complex of industrial, commercial, institutional, or dwelling structures, special design of the building lateral system shall be required. Such lateral sewer shall be connected to the public sewer through a manhole. The City Engineer shall determine if and where this connection to the public sewer is required. If required, a new manhole shall be installed in the public sewer pursuant to §§
139-44 and
139-108 and the lateral connection made and tested as directed by the City Engineer. The City Engineer may also accept plans which provide for a complex to be served by a single sewer (six inches or larger), provided that each building in the complex is served by a separate lateral discharging to that sewer. Plans and specifications shall be prepared and submitted for approval pursuant to this Part
3.
Dry sewers shall be designed and installed in accordance to this Part
3.
Existing building laterals may be used in connection with new buildings only when they are found, on examination by the City Engineer, to meet all requirements of this Part
3.
The street lateral, including the wye and eighth
bend fittings, shall be connected to the main sewer at the time of
constructing the main sewer, for each proposed lot for either immediate
or future development. Laterals installed for future development shall
be fitted with a standard plug approved for use by the City Engineer.
All sewer connections shall be via a properly installed saddle on
the main sewer pipe. No portion of the lateral pipe shall protrude
into the main sewer pipe. The location of all lateral connections
shall be field marked with a corrosion- and rot-resistant board two
inches by six inches. The marker board shall extend from the depth
of the lateral to a minimum of two feet above grade. The location
of all lateral connections shall be indicated on a drawing with a
minimum of three tie lines indicated. Four copies of this drawing,
showing the as-built location of these connections, shall be furnished
to the City Engineer. A refundable deposit shall be placed with City
to assure receipt of these as-builts. The deposit shall be placed
when application is made; the amount of the deposit shall be $100
per sheet of plans showing locations of lateral connections. No sanitary
sewer shall be accepted by the City until four copies of this record
drawing have been so filed with the City Engineer and the City Engineer
has approved the submitted drawings.
When any street lateral is to serve a school, hospital, or similar institution, or public housing, or is to serve a complex of industrial or commercial buildings, or which, in the opinion of the City Engineer, will receive wastewater or industrial wastes of such volume or character that frequent maintenance of said building or street lateral is anticipated, then such street lateral shall be connected to the public sewer through a manhole. The City Engineer shall determine if and where this type of connection to the public sewer is required. Connections to existing manholes shall be made as directed by the City Engineer. If required, a new manhole shall be installed in the public sewer pursuant to §§
139-44 and
139-108, and the lateral connection made thereto as directed by the City Engineer.
In all buildings in which any building drain
is too low to permit gravity flow to the public sewer, wastewater
carried by such drain shall be lifted by mechanical means and discharged
to the building lateral, on approval of the City Engineer.
All excavations required for the installation
of a building or street lateral shall be open trench work unless otherwise
approved by the City Engineer. Pipe laying and backfilling, regardless
of pipe material used, shall be performed in general accordance with
Paragraphs 3 through 6 of ASTM Specification C-12, except that trench
width, measured at the top of the installed pipe, shall not exceed
the outside pipe diameter plus 14 inches and, except that no backfill
shall be placed until the work has been inspected. The depth of cover
over the pipe shall be sufficient to afford protection from frost,
but in no case shall such depth be less than four feet. Where it is
physically impossible to provide cover of four feet, the depth may
be reduced to a minimum of two feet and the pipe shall be insulated,
as approved by the City Engineer.
The street lateral, building lateral, or the
combined lateral shall be tested for infiltration/exfiltration by:
A. Any full pipe method described in §
139-45; or
B. By a suitable joint method, with the prior written
approval of the City Engineer.
When trenches are excavated for the laying of
building lateral pipes or for laying of street lateral pipes, such
trenches shall be inspected by the City Engineer. Before the trenches
are backfilled, the person performing such work shall notify the City
Engineer when the laying of the building lateral is completed, and
no backfilling of trenches shall begin until approval is obtained
the City Engineer.
All excavations for constructing building laterals shall be adequately protected with barricades and lights so as to protect the public from hazard. Streets, sidewalks, parkways, and other public property disturbed, in the course of the work, shall be restored in a manner satisfactory to the City Engineer. When installation requires disturbance of paved public roads and shoulders, restoration shall involve backfilling to road grade. Shortly thereafter the City of Oneida Department of Public Works (DPW) shall complete road and shoulder restoration to the City standards. The cost for such final road and shoulder restoration by the DPW shall be included with the fees paid with the application for the permit required in §
139-52.
All costs associated with the provisions of
this article shall be borne by the property owner unless specifically
stated or agreed to be a cost borne by the City. The property owner
shall indemnify the City from any loss or damage that may be directly
or indirectly occasioned by the installation of the building and street
laterals, and connections and appurtenances.